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PatentedMar. 24, 1885.

V UNITED STATES PATENT rrrce,

ZEPHIRIN M. GELINAS, OF YAMAGHICHE, QUEBEC, CANADA, ;'XSSIG-NOR OF ONE-THIRD TO OTS OHAMBERLAIN, OF ENFIELD CENTRE, N.

WASHING-MACHINE.

PECIFICATON fcrming part of Letters Patent No. 314,372, dated March 24. 1885.

Application filed April 9, 1884.

To (tZZ wtom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ZEPHIRIN M. GnLINAs,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Yamachiche, in the county of St. Maurice and Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented a new and useful Washing-Machine, of which the following' is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to washing-maio chines; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particular] y pointed out in the claims.`

Figure l is a View in perspeclive of a washimg-machine embodying my improvements. Fig'. 2 is a Vertical longitudinal section-al View. Fig. 3 is a transverse Vertical sectional view; and Fig. 4 is an end elevation with the bearing-plate removed.

Referring by letter' to the accompanying drawings, a designates the frame, which has Vertical side walls, b b', connected by a top bar, c, but in other respects may be of any suitable shape or dimensions. The inner faces z 5 of the Vertical side walls, b b', are recessed near their middles, and are provided with slot ted plates d (Z, in the slots d' of which the' studs e e, projecting from the outer faces of the castings f f, which form the bearings for the journals of the wooden plain rollers g g',

play vertically when the machine is in operation. The castings f f are connected at their upper ends by the cross-bar h, and the bearings for the roller-journals g r/ open down- 3 5 ward and are in the lower edges of 'said castings, as shown. Tension-springs it' bear upon the upper face of the connecting-bar h, and pressure-plates k k rest upon the upper ends of the tension-sprngs ii, and are operated by 40 screws Zlin the top eonnectingbar, c, to regulate the tension of the rollers to the thiekness of the fabric being washed. Below the plain ,wooden rollers g r/ is journaled in the Vertical side walls of the frame a fiuted wooden roller,

m. One end of this fiuted roller has a fixed projecting journal, a, while the other end is provided with a rectangular socket, o, which receives the rectangular inner end, p, of the (No model.) Paientcd in (lnnmla December' 18, 1879, No. 9,498.

short shai't 11', carrying a pinion, q, and a coggear wheel, 7'. The outer face of the Vertical side wall, b', is provided with a metal strip or plate, r, which forms one set of bearings for the shafts of the gearing. The other bearings for said shafts (being two in number) are in the removable cover-plate r'. A pinion, 8, having` a single bearing in the metal strip engages the teeth of the pinion q on the driv ingshaft of the finted roller m. The short shaft n, which receives the operating-crank, is provided with a segmental pinion, w, and a segmental cog gear, x, the plain peripheral portions being' opposed to each other. The Crank may be turned in either direction to opA erate the rollers, and the gearing imparts a roching motion to the rollers, so that the fabric, which is placed between the finted roller and the plain roller, will be reciprocated to and fro by the rollers. The teeth on the seg' mental cog-gear turn the rollers in one direction by engaging the teeth of the cog-gear q', while the teeth of the segmental pinion w turns them in the opposite direction when they engage the pinion q, so that the fabric is thoroughly rubbed between the rollers, and also moved to and fro in the suds.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a washing-maehine, the combination, with the fiuted roller having a cog-gear and pinion on the same end of its shaft, 'of the two plain rollers in bearings regulated by tension- Springs, and a crank-shaft provided with a segmental cog-gear and a segmental pinion having their plain ares opposed, and an inter- S 5 mediate pinion, substantially as specified.

2. In a washing-machine, the combination, with the frame provided with the Vertical side walls having slotted guide-plates for the studs on the eastings for the plain rollers, the cast- 90 ings connected by the cross-bar and having open bearings in their lower edges, the plain rollers, and the tension-springs regulated by bearing-plates and thumb'screws, of the fluted roller having a socket in one end for its driv- 9 5 ing-shaft, and full and segmental ge-aring connected to. operate when drven to impart a In testilnony that I claim the foregong as rocking' motion to said rollers, substantially my own Ihave'hereto aflxed my signature in as specified. presence of two witnesses.

3. In a. washing-maehine, the combination;

ZEPHIRIN M. GELINAS.

5 with the fluted roller and plain rollers, of the removable shaft having the Coggear g' and pinion q, the pinion 8, the crank-shaft with Wtnesses: segmental cog-gear x and the segmental pin- L. A. LORD, ion w, the bearing-strip and the removable LOUIS PIPETTE.

Io cover-plate r', substantially as specified. 

